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Jutta Haeckel
Eternal Return, 31 January - 14 March 2015
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Jutta Haeckel, Eternal Return

Inside of what Romanticism wants there already lies the seed of its failure, for at the end of the longing, the search for insight, stands the darkness of mystery. 

–Reinhard Lindenhahn

 

Düsseldorf-based painter Jutta Haeckel’s twenty new paintings are studies in dichotomy and ambiguity. They are representational yet abstract, both microscopic and macrocosmic, based equally in contemporary scientific theories and historic German Romanticism. Through opposing perspectives Haeckel studies “the essence of things” and our yearning for explanations.

 

As source material, Haeckel uses photographs of the natural world — either shot herself or appropriated — in traditional landscape format, as close-ups of details of organic material, or images taken from Google Earth. She superimposes and weaves together these disparate images using what look like the techniques of Abstract Expressionism — splashes, streaks, smears and brush strokes — but are in fact meticulously composed and constructed. These are not descriptive paintings though they look to images of nature for their inspiration. Nor are they abstract paintings, though they utilize the visual language of Abstract Expressionism.

 

Haeckel is intrigued by the order that can be observed in the natural world as well as the insights offered by biology and physics. But she’s even more fascinated by the limits of our perception and science’s inability to explain things. In her paintings she uses the tension between the known and uncertain to explore the deep-seated human need to create order and find meaning.

 

Jutta Haeckel was born in 1972 in Hanover, Germany. She studied at Hochschule fur Kunste in Bremen, Germany and Goldsmiths College in London. She has exhibited widely in Germany, including recent exhibitions at the Kunsthalle in Recklinghausen and at Schloss Detmold. This is her fourth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery.

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Works
  • Cloudy brown lines and splashes of red and green paint decorate a white background in a chaotic manner. Pattern becomes more cloudy at the bottom of the canvas and more clear at the top.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Flawy, 2014
    oil on linen
    70 7/8 x 86 5/8 inches/180 x 220 cm
  • Set against a light blue background, dark brown continent-like shapes are layered over similar softer shapes in orange and light green. The blue background drips onto a brown background at the bottom of the canvas.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Cosmological Radiation, 2014
    oil on linen
    23 5/8 x 19 3/4 in
    60 x 50 cm
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  • Dark green camouflage-like shapes are layered over a cloudy white and yellow background. On top of the darker shapes are white and black criss-crossing lines and tiny splashes of paint.
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    Analogies, 2014
    oil on linen
    23 5/8 x 19 3/4 inches
    60 x 50 cm
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  • Against black background, there is a shape originating in the top middle of the canvas with rays radiating in all directions. The rays are green outlined in yellow and appear to be dripping away from the central shape, which is cloudy, white and gray.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Univers Revers 4, 2014
    oil on linen
    23 5/8 x 19 3/4 inches
    60 x 50 cm
  • Rippled water near the top of the canvas in white and tan paint appears to be dripping down the canvas.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Off Color 2, 2014
    oil on linen
    78 3/4 x 59 1/8 inches
    200 x 150 cm
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  • A background of a dark sky with white stars is set behind a criss-crossing pattern of brown branches and white explosions of paint.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Nothing happens in nature but for a reason, 2015
    oil on linen
    59 1/8 x 47 1/4 inches/150 x 120 cm
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  • Leaves in white and drips of paint in brown and white create a thick and layered pattern. Horizontal brush strokes and swiggled multi-color lines move throughout the composition.
    Jutta Haeckel
    Additive, 2013
    oil on linen
    47 1/4 x 59 1/8 inches/120 x 150.2 cm
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